23 December 1931 in Reading, Berkshire [registered in
Reading, March 1932].

Height/Weight

5'
9½", 11st.
9lbs [1957].

Source

Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] & FindMyPast.com

Club Career

Club(s)

Started his career with Coley Boys Club. Signed amateur forms with Reading
FC in February 1949, turning professional in April 1949.
After 46 league appearances and five goals,
Brooks joined Tottenham Hotspur FC in February 1953 for a transfer fee and
two players. He made 166 league appearances and
scored 46 goals. Chelsea FC signed Brooks in December 1959 in a
player exchange and he went on to make 46
appearances and six goals. Brentford FC signed Brooks for £5000
in September 1961 and he completed another 83
league appearances and scored another 36 goals. Crystal Palace FC
signed him in January 1964, then after only
seven league appearances, Stevenage Borough FC signed him in
October 1964. Turned out for the Cleveland Stokers in the NASL in 1968. Was playing for
and assisting Knebworth FC in the Hertfordshire League until well into his
fifties.

Club honours

Football
League Division Four winners 1962-63;

Individual honours

None

Distinctions

His son, Shaun,
also played football for Leyton Orient FC, Crystal Palace FC and
Bournemouth AFC, as well as being an England schoolboy and youth.
Johnny Brooks was one of the early celebrities endorsing hair-products,
doing so for Max Factor hair shampoo.

Source

Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990].

After leaving first class football,
he became a broker's messenger in the city. Currently lives in Boscombe. - An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.48/49.

Johnny Brooks - Career Statistics

Squads

Apps

Comp.
Apps

Starts

Sub on

Sub off

Mins.

Goals

Goals
Av.min

Comp.
Goals

Capt.

Disc.

3

3

2

3

0

0

270

2

135
min

1

none

none

Due to the fact that
many matches rarely stuck to exactly ninety minutes long, allowing time
for injuries, errors and substitutions. The minutes here
given can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only
an approximation.